Crossword-Solution: SCROOGED 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The doors and windows of the stores stood open, displaying limp wares of trade, but few tokens of life; the clerks hanging over dim counters as far as possible from the glare in front, gossiping fragmentarily, usually about the Cory murder, and, anon, upon a subject suggested by the sight of an occasional pedestrian passing perspiring by with scrooged eyelids and purpling skin.

And a voice--a choked, high little voice--cried, "Let me by! I can't see! You MAN, you! You big fat man! My boy's going by--to war--and I can't see! Let me by!" Jo scrooged around, still keeping his place.

Well, I asked natural like for Nella-Rose and Marg scrooged up her mouth, knowing full well as how I knew Jed was second choice for her--but Pete he done tell me that Nella-Rose had married Burke Lawson and run to safer parts and when I got over the shock I was certainly thankful for being a sheriff ain't all it might be when your ideas of justice and liking gets crossed.

Once I made sure he'd married the gal, I felt right easy in my mind." "And you--did make sure, Jim? There was no doubt? I--I remember the pretty little thing; it would have been damnable to--to hurt her." "I scrooged the main fact out o' old Pete, her father.

But times got harder and living higher priced, and finally she had to give up trying to keep the whole thing decent and just scrooged herself into those little quarters in the 'L.' She's made a good fight, but she never would come down off her high horse or ask for any help or let any one into what happened to her folks." "How long ago was all that?" asked Doris.